Substitute Quotes

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance.

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

There's no substitute for guts.

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.

However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.

The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.